Letters to the Editor: Does rioting indicate a 'cause'?

Letters to the Editor: Does rioting indicate a 'cause'?

Objects are thrown towards PSNI officers an the water canon on Springfield Road in Belfast during unrest.

There’s been a tendency in debate and in reports to call the ongoing events in loyalist communities ‘nights of violence’ or ‘scenes of disorder’.

While true, it’s curious that the word ‘riot’ is not being as used freely as it could.

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